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RHP Ryne Moore is not in limbo - he was released last September as indicated on his MiLB Player Page.

Friday 4/5: Via 97.3's "Baseball Postgame Show": - The engineers were a day delayed in posting Friday's recap, but since there was no broadcast Saturday night due to NCAA hoops, catch up with Tim Allen's latest *** Saturday 4/6: Via WTMJ: Dom Cotroneo discusses the 5-3 loss to the Mariners

Thread will be utilized for any minor league news Sunday, lineup updates, etc. Organizational Scoreboard including starting pitcher info, game times, MiLB TV links, and box scores

Do wins and losses really matter on a day-to-day basis down on the Brewers farm? Darn right they do, just ask every single person associated with the organization. That sentiment extends to Brewer Fanatic Link Reporters as well. We'll take a .750 daily winning percentage all season long. The Timber Rattlers cracked the win column for their first victory in their Game Two, and both the Shuckers and Mudcats are now 2-0, as Biloxi found a productive way to maximize the minimum (you'll see). We'll kick off, as is our norm, our top-to-bottom-level review with a transaction roundup, then it's off to Nashville. Image courtesy of BrewerFanatic Transactions: LHP Aaron Ashby recalled to MLB Brewers from AAA Nashville (replacing injured RHP Jakob Junis) INF Felix Valerio placed on AA Biloxi 7-day injured list RHP Logan Henderson promoted to High-A Wisconsin from Low-A Carolina and placed on 7-day injured list RHP Rafael Garcia placed on Low-A Carolina 7-day injured list (Garcia last pitched on July 30, 2022, throwing only 1.1 innings that season; he’ll turn 23 later this month) Signed RHP Samuel Valerio and assigned to ACL Brewers (the 22-year-old fireballer with control issues was released by the Royals two weeks ago) RHP Kevin Briceno released by ACL Brewers 1B/OF Yeison Perez released by ACL Brewers RHP Darling Solano released by ACL Brewers RHP Henrison Mota released by ACL Brewers RHP Anthony Perez released by ACL Brewers When you combine Friday's list of moves with those above, that's nine players dismissed. We'll have a summary post on our Minor League Forum detailing the work of those nine and wishing them well within a day or two. One of the DSL players was actually the return in a 2021 trade when the Brewers sent out one of their DFA'd big-leaguers. That's a bit of unanswered trivia for you until we make the post. Nashville Pre-Game Media Notes Final: St. Paul (Twins) 3, Nashville 0 Box Score and Game Log Via the Sounds’ website, game details, and we encourage readers to review affiliate write-ups as part of their Link Report routine: Sounds Shut Out By Saints - Myers strikes out 10 but offense sputters in 3-0 loss LF Brewer Hicklen already has six extra-base hits in 35 plate appearances, on his way to a 1.064 OPS in the early going. His double in this one was the Sounds' lone XBH among their four knocks. Only Owen Miller, playing first base here, avoided the painful walk to the dugout after a strikeout (11 in all). Eric Haase, as the DH, drew two of the club's five free passes. Scoring as many runs as the starting lineup, Tyler Black, Patrick Dorrian, Chavez Young and Nick Kahle made up the Nashville bench with days off. RHP Tobias Myers posted a shiny 10-to-1 K-to-BB ratio in 5.2 IP. His line was salvaged somewhat, as RH reliever Blake Holub stranded two runners for Myers to end the 6th. Myers, still just 25 years old, has had an interesting career path, involved in two significant trades that then spawned a DFA journey to two additional organizations. Thus, the Brewers are Myers' 6th club (you can see his transaction history at the bottom of this link), and the Crew signed him after a bizarre 2022 campaign when he was 1-15 with a 7.82 ERA. Milwaukee must have figured they needed two seasons to try and resuscitate Myers' career, as he signed a rare two-year minor league deal as a healthy player. We'll see where 2024 takes him. Bizarrely, there still isn't audio being generated out of the Sounds' highlights within "X". Well, the highlights were minimal here, so we'll spare you the silence. Biloxi Pre-Game Media Notes Final: Biloxi 1, Montgomery (Rays) 0 Box Score and Game Log Five Shutout Innings from Blalock Lifts Shuckers to Shutout Win - Biloxi tallies lone run on Freddy Zamora homer, clinch opening series against Montgomery This is RHP Bradley Blalock's age 23 season, yet he's already on the Brewers' 40-man roster. In fact, he's the lone Shuckers player who's earned that designation thus far. Blalock was drafted by the Red Sox in the 32nd round out of a Georgia high school in 2019. In March of 2022 he underwent Tommy John surgery but had shown enough prior to have Milwaukee identify him as the return for thorn-in-the-side-this-weekend Luis Urias. Fantastic AA debut for Blalock here, as the box score and game report indicate. Local TV media loves covering their Shuckers, so we get nice reports like these pretty regularly for home games: In addition, the Shuckers are especially active in posting their own highlights (Biloxi is not alone in the lack of a CF camera, alas). Now, we can count the ways Twitter ("X") has added to our baseball enjoyment over the years, but their offseason change in the way they list posts under the "media" banner, well, frankly, stinks. So, on nights when an affiliate posts numerous video highlights (often too many to list individually here), we'll instead simply link to the team's full X feed, whether video media or not. EDIT, BREAKING NEWS: We're told the center field camera will be back for the next Shuckers' home series, yay! This is quite something: Oh yeah, we had to look up that August 18, 2022 Timber Rattlers game. Do you think Wisconsin was on the short end of the stick, or the victor? Find out here. Sweet four innings of Biloxi bullpen work Saturday night. By the way, a reminder RHP Justin Yeager was yet another piece of the William Contreras + Joel Payamps bonanza via Esteury Ruiz. Wisconsin Pre-Game Media Notes (download link) Final: Wisconsin 6, Peoria (Cardinals) 3 Box Score and Game Log Four-Run Fifth Inning Pushes Wisconsin Past Peoria - Barrios and Areinamo break tie with back-to-back two-RBI hits Fun fact - nearly 1 in 20 players in the Brewers minors this year have the last name Rodriguez, 4.7%. That would be 12 out of 256 prospects reaching from AAA down to the DSL. Wisconsin has three of the 12, including catchers Ramon and Alejandro (although the latter is on the fabled "Development List"), often referred to as the "we need a bullpen catcher" list. That's not being fair to Alejandro, a non-drafted free agent signing out of Florida Gulf Coast last summer. I apologize for the lapse in decorum. Closer Yerlin Rodriguez (recently turned 22) needs to bring down his 2023 Carolina WHIP of 1.47, but he got the job done here, walking one, but retiring three batters, two via strikeout. Three of Wisconsin's 11 hits were doubles, which is fine, but at first review, this roster is lacking in thump. We'll see how often we get to hear Chris Mehring's home run calls, especially in the cold-weather initial weeks. Final: Carolina 6, Salem (Red Sox) 2 Box Score and Game Log Birchard, Hall Impress as Mudcats Move to 2-0 - Carolina wins the first two games of the season for the third time in four years No media notes on the Carolina front quite yet, but that will likely rectify itself soon. Just in time for Tuesday's home opener, we have a new Voice of the Mudcats. Scroll at that post to see the subsequent link in which we learn more about Colin Casey. Colin's already tweeting about Mudcats road games, which sadly is the norm for most Carolina League teams, meaning he won't be covering directly. Give him a follow. That being said, Carolina's staff continues to do a fine job culling video highlights from the opponent's broadcast, as they've done in prior years. I count five of them from Saturdays' feed including this: Since he was held back after being drafted in the 5th round out of Niagara Community College last summer, we all have been clamoring for some Ryan Birchard action. Thanks to my indomitable fellow Link Reporter Joseph, we have a thorough breakdown of Birchard's debut. My goodness, let's look at this sentence in 4-5 years, but the Crew's '23 draft class could wind up being epic. Heck, 20th round pick Justin Chambers already netted seeming stud big-league LH reliever Bryan Hudson from the Dodgers. That's immediate value! It's all mid-afternoon action on Sunday, a very traditional schedule as all four series wrap up down prior to Monday's off day. I enjoyed my return visit to weekend morning full-package reporting, thanks for coming along for the ride! Organizational Scoreboard including starting pitcher info, game times, MiLB TV links, and box scores Current Milwaukee Brewers Organization Batting Stats and Depth Current Milwaukee Brewers Organization Pitching Stats and Depth View full article

Get to know Colin Casey Welcome Colin! Like Biloxi’s Javik Blake, Casey is a Massachusetts native (I have family in East Longmeadow), and has Cape Cod League experience. Nice that his most recent work was also in the Carolina League.

Friday 4/5: Via ESPN Wisconsin's "Jen, Gabe and Chewy" (download link): Sophia Minnaert Via WTMJ's Morning News (Download Link): Adam McCalvy (yay, Adam!) Via 97.3's "The Steve Czaban Show": Paul Wagner (go to the 31:30 minute mark) Via WSCO's "The Show with Leo and Balky (Hour One): Jack Stern, now of "BrewerFanatic" (go to the 34:35 minute mark) VIDEO via MLB Network's "MLB Tonight": Jackson Chourio Postgame Show: Via WTMJ: Greg Matzek hosts, Jerry Augustine is the guest

Wilken’s rapid rise in 2023 stalled out at Biloxi The only thing that stalled Wilken at Biloxi was the end-of-season calendar - two HR, eight RBI, and an .845 OPS in just six games.

That's a puzzler purely from a statistical standpoint.

Thread will be utilized for any minor league news Friday, lineup updates, etc. Organizational Scoreboard including starting pitcher info, game times, MiLB TV links, and box scores NOTE: Thanks to damuelle for covering for me tonight, Opening Night in three locales. I'll make it up to you, buddy!

Nice mini-article find on Garcia from damuelle here.

Thursday 4/4: Via the new BrewerFanatic Podcast: "Jack Stern and Spencer Michaelis discuss the first five games of the Brewers season, give their early thoughts on Pat Murphy as a manager, their expectations for the season and preview the upcoming series against the Mariners." Via WTMJ's Morning News (Download Link): Matt Arnold VIDEO via MLB Network's MLB Central: "Mark DeRosa takes a look at the Brewers' electric rookie Jackson Chourio and the early impact he's making." Via WTMJ: Dom Cotroneo hosts "Brewers All Access" (Brewers Weekly) - "Dom breaks down the first week of Brewers baseball. What is sustainable for the team going forward? Potential 6-man rotation? Can Yelich have a 30-30 season? Highlights from the last two games." Via "The PBP: Voices of Baseball" Podcast: Brian Anderson (go to the 03:40 minute mark) Via "The Bill Michaels Show (Hour One)": Vinny Rottino (go to the 14:20 minute mark) Via the "Brewers Babes" Podcast (NSFW, occasional language): "The Brewers have started the season hot yet again and we're here to tell you all about the amazing pitching, hitting, defense and managing we've seen the past week. We share our first impressions of Pat Murphy's Brewers, and talk about who's really shining on the team when we share our first Sausage Race winners of the season. We each pick a Fielder's Choice (from the same team!) and read our essays about why WE would be perfect for the job of MLB Wiener Connoisseur."

AUDIO: "Manager Joe Ayrault joined the pregame show on Wednesday ahead of the exhibition game to chat about his first few days in Biloxi, the returning roster and who impressed in Arizona!"

How the Brewers could one day have MLB's first all-German battery RHP Paul Hoff, C Yannic Walther connect (for the first time) with the Crew Cool story...

Tuesday 4/2: Via ESPN Wisconsin (download link): "Gabe Neitzel gets you ready for the Brewers home opener LIVE at the Tailgate Haus at AM Fam Field as he is joined by a cavalcade of guests including Lane Grindle, Sophia Minnaert and Dom Cotroneo." *** Wednesday 4/3: Via WTMJ's Morning News (Download Link): Jeff Levering Via WTMJ's Morning News (Download Link): Rick Schlesinger on "Park and Scan" issues Via 97.3's "The Steve Czaban Show": Jeff Levering Via the "Cream City Pod" with BrewerFanatic's own Spencer Michaelis: "Topics Covered: - Injury updates - Mitchell, Miley, Gasser, Quero, Megill - Mets series review - Rhys fireworks - Twins series review - Turang, Frelick, Chourio, etc - Pat Murphy's managerial style - Random Brewers Postgame Shows - Locked on Brewers with Chuck Freimund - "The Brewers are over-working their pen!" Via 97.3's Drew & KB: Tim Allen joins the show

From Biloxi's exhibition game Wednesday night: Javik Blake's game recap No. 4 Pearl River has special night against Biloxi Shuckers WLOX - Video highlights WXXV - Brief video highlights

Video and quotes within - Despite snow, Timber Rattlers '95 percent sure' they will start the season on time The Fox Valley's minor league baseball team is scheduled to open the season on Friday night. Despite eight inches of snow in Grand Chute, the T-Rats believe they will be good to go.

Thread will be utilized for any minor league news Thursday, lineup updates, etc. Organizational Scoreboard including starting pitcher info, game times, MiLB TV links, and box scores

Javik Blake's game recap No. 4 Pearl River has special night against Biloxi Shuckers WLOX - Video highlights WXXV - Brief video highlights

Article - Nice for Timber Rattlers fans with access to local TV: 64 of 66 games available on broadcast TV

Shuckers play an exhibition game this evening, 6:35 Central. Looks like it’s available for viewing with a free log-in at the link provided:

Brewers sign 18-year-old RHP Justin Lugo out of the Dominican Republic, assigned to DSL 1. International signings at this time of year tend to be of the $10,000 nature, though it's possible the Brewers pool still has more significant dollars remaining. Given that Lugo is already 18 and is inking his contract three months after the opening of the signing period somewhat confirms the smaller bonus.